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When I set up my friends tank two summers ago we set up his sump and external refegium and had water going from the sump to the refegium at 50 gph...
In addition to clearing up that algae it will kill tons of harmful bacteria as long as you have the proper flow running through it.
No I have a twenty amp breaker dedicated yo my tank that runs to a pair of GFCI outlets. Water plus electricity equals bad hair!
I prefer using emeralds to get rid of bubble algae, and when my tank first got started I had hair algae really bad. The thing that worked the best on...
I like others have done that also with no ill effects.
How did it turn out?
I'd leave it alone if you like PM me and I can send you some pics of the PVC and clear plastic things I fabbed up when I was still using power heads.
Not sure about how far you are from Sacramento but when I was in Davis over the summer I drove down there to check it out, seemed like a pretty cool...
Welcome best of luck on the diatom issue
I bought a book afew years back and if memory serves me correctly it said the main cause of diatoms was an abundance of light and water chemistry...
I would attatch a piece of PVC with holes drilled in it so you still get the flow without harming the anemone. Reason being the corals will feed at...
I have a seperate refegium from my sump I just plumbed it in to the little powerhead that supplies water to the refegium. That way the pods aren't...
I love the variety of cichlids out there, very cool fish! I had a tank of Malawi's for two years.
Just wanted to say hello to everyone, happened to stumble upon the site a few days ago and am very excited about being a member.
For that good of a price you can do a lot, if it was me I would set up soft coral only tank.
That looks really cool, good to see that it can be done on a little $.
Mangroves are rad but they take up a lot of room, if I had the space I'd totally get 'em.
I had something similar happen except my skimmer was up and running couldn't figure out what it was little spike then down a little after a day then...
I have golf ball sized LR im my refugium on top of the LS and it's awesome how the macro attaches to it it looks pretty cool, even though I'm the...
My experience with xenia is that they are a great way to tell if your water quality is off, if that isn't your problem then I would lean more towards...
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